Browsing: gender equality

The United Nations International Children’s Education Fund says gender equality means: “That women and men, girls and boys, enjoy the same rights, resources, opportunities and protections. It does not require that girls and boys, or women and men, be the same, or that they be treated exactly alike.”

This gender equality bill was sponsored by Senator Biodun Olujimi representing Ekiti-South Senatorial District, with the aim of achieving equal treatment legislation, gender mainstreaming (integration of the gender perspective into all other policies), specific measures for the advancement of women, equal access to education, the strengthening of laws on violence against women, ending abduction of girls, sustenance and promotion of entrepreneurship opportunities among others